For the entertainment of the locals
Wednesday, Mar 12 2014

“These abominable people brought me a bill of eleven dollars for that good-for-nothing sewer down in Albany Street – which profits us not at all. Might as well not have any government as one which rules by oppression. I hate Hartford and there’s the end of it. It is a cold raw disagreeable stiff forlorn uncomfortable place and I wish I was out of it.”

She never did really get out of Hartford, living there every winter for the rest of her life, though there were a few trips to New Orleans after the Civil War. But she did get out of it in the summer time finally.

They did not, by the way, live on or near Albany Street. So the sewer really didn’t profit them. Those who know the goings on around here will agree that the arguments haven’t changed much…

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